In this 2 minute video tip, check out how to use After Effects’ Leave Color effect to create the look where you footage is made black and white, leaving only a single color, made popular by the film Pleasantville.
Alexander of Amateurmedia.net has created a stylish new font named Typograph Pro. Also check some of the great usage examples created within Cinema 4D.
Red Giant Software has released Colorista 2, with some exciting new features and improvements. Use motionworks10 for a 1o% discount.
Fontfeed.com has an excellent column “Screenfonts” which discusses the use of fonts in movie posters.
Industrial Light and Magic has a new site. It’s quite amazing just how many productions ILM has been involved in.
Urban Dirty has terrific free grunge stock images and also provides color themes for various images with a downloadable .ASE file. You can import the .ASE file into After Effects using Swatch You Want.
nailgun* has done some smart spots for ESPN. Note the detail and depth, enhanced by depth-of-field and subtle camera drift, taking the photo/slide theme to the next level.
13 Responses to this post
April 2, 2008 at 1:21 am |
Hey great tip.
I know it possible in Final Cut.
Have you an idea how?
T.
April 2, 2008 at 6:08 am |
FCP has no such effect natively. You can try this though: Duplicate the layer, remove color from lower layer, on top layer apply chroma key and choose the color your want to keep, then invert the selection.
April 2, 2008 at 8:36 am |
Hi John,
This is a great tip, little things like this are really appreciated. Its great to learn some new things whilst waiting on renders.
Elijah’s music is also very pleasant on the ears he is a great composer for your dynamic visuals. You two make a great team.
Jonathan
April 2, 2008 at 10:58 pm |
That tip and the prsentation is nice and smooth
What about MILG 2&3?
My money came today and im ready to order
April 3, 2008 at 7:13 am |
MILG 2 and 3 will be released on April 13th.
April 3, 2008 at 7:48 am |
Nice… im looking forward to getting my hands on this
April 3, 2008 at 8:27 am |
That gonna be some looong 10 days till April 13th…
April 4, 2008 at 3:27 am |
That is really cool, I am going to try that on some of my video advertisements.. Great Tip, will be back soon!
Ian
April 6, 2008 at 1:54 pm |
Nice TIP JD, Funny you posted it, as I was just watching Grant Swansons “Creating The Sin City Effects” over at Creative Cow
last week, here is the link (if you don’t mind JD)
http://library.creativecow.net/articles/swanson_grant/sin_city1.php
His tutorial takes a longer rout than your GREAT TIP, but you get the job done either way.
Thanks JD
December 6, 2008 at 12:39 pm |
Excellent
December 28, 2009 at 8:34 pm |
can’t watch the video
December 29, 2009 at 2:42 am |
Hi Keith, I just tested the connection and it seems to be fine at my end. Best wishes, John.
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